The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.